750 new Covid cases before long weekend
Quebec has 750 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, just before a long weekend, when we won’t see any new numbers for three days.
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DeWolf 13:48 on 2021-09-03 Permalink
Santé Québec has been posting the numbers every weekend on their Twitter feed. And the data is still posted daily on the open data portal, even on the weekends, so some other Twitter users like Fagstein are making their own charts.
Today, 83% of those 750 new cases are from people who are not adequately vaccinated. That’s a similar proportion to what we’ve seen since the start of the fourth wave. So if you’re fully vaxxed and you take all the usual precautions like wearing masks indoors, you really don’t have much to worry about.
MarcG 14:23 on 2021-09-03 Permalink
127 fully vaxxed people tested positive yesterday and 9 went into the hospital. It would be interesting to get more details about their cases. Did they do something stupid? Are they old or otherwise immuno-compromised?
DeWolf 15:30 on 2021-09-03 Permalink
In a recent news article, an Israeli doctor was quoted as saying that most vaccinated people who were ending up in hospital were very old and in poor health to begin with. As opposed to unvaccinated people, who were of all ages and in all kinds of health.
As for cases, I haven’t heard anything about any sort demographic trends. It may just be luck of the draw. But an American doctor was on CBC the other day explaining that vaccinated people with breakthrough infections tend to have mild symptoms that last for two or three days (which was the case for him), as opposed to one or two weeks in unvaccinated people.
There was also a UK study published recently that determined that vaccinated people with breakthrough infections are 50 percent less likely to develop long Covid.
Bottom line is that the vaccines turn Covid into the relatively harmless flu or cold that pandemic deniers always claimed it was. If we got the vaccination rate up to 90 or 95 percent of eligible people, we’d be in the clear. Luckily we’re already at 87 percent first doses and 80 percent second, so it’s a realistic goal.